Check out the Aquaria wiki for recipes and what they do, unless you are a purist. After awhile I cheated. Do a forum search for the link. The plump perogi, as I recall, is +3 defense and +3 damage (not the right word; I forget it in this moment. Brain fart.). Also love turtle soup for +3 defense, gotten by going in and out of the song cave until you have 8 bowls of turtle soup and 8 chunks of turtle meat. What can I say, I like to be prepared. And I prefer killing the cartoon turtles to the cute ones in the turtle cave... In our mod I just made turtle meat leaves. Can people make new food with new effects? What have people come up with for new effects?